Dragon age: How i hated it, then actually enjoyed it.

[aleph]

So, how do you put off the AI? All I got was this lousy disabling of specific combat tactics, but the behaviours seem unavoidable.

You can switch AI off the Tactics Menu, right where it says "disable AI". You have to do it for every party member separetly though.

 

[FeelTheRads]

BROS SKYWAY IS RIGHT THIS GAME IS A PEACE OF SHIT HOW ABOUT YOU FUCKING GROW A PARE AND NOT SUCK IT DOWN LIKE ALL THE OTHER SHEEPLE??!?!!!

LOL I AM FUNNY AND FOR REAL MAN CUZ I LIKE ALL GAEMS NOT LIKE THIS STUPID CODEXERS WITH NO GIRLFRIENDS WHO PRETENTD TO BE GAEMERS. GAEMERS LIEK ALL GAMES. PFFT.. NO LIFE MORONS ILL GO FUKC MY HOT GF NOW BUT FIRST LET ME POST ANOTHER SMART REMARK ABOUT HOW CODEX SUCKS. OH MAYBE ONE MORE IN THAT NEW TOPIC THERE. FUCKING NO LIFE SHITHEADS IM BETTER THAN ALL OF THEM.

 

[Xor]

You're not very good at witty retorts, feeltherads.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Xor, you suck!

HOW ABOUT THAT????

 

[Xor]

See, that's exactly what I'm talking about.

 

[FeelTheRads]

Ah!

 

[JarlFrank]

Skyway is much more forgiving of strategy games than RPG's, I've noticed. I bet it's easier to make a good strategy game than it is a good RPG. Not that either one is particularly easy.

Mediocre strategy games still offer more gameplay-fun than mediocre story-focused RPGs with shit writing, so yeah.

 

[Volourn]

"FACT: JE is a shitty game, BG2 is a great game."

dON'T LIE.

 

[thekdawg21]

"Combat is BETTER than clunky BGII in terms of feel and execution, a bit less so in terms of complexity and difficulty."

How the FUCK is BG2 combat more 'complex'?

That's bullshit analysis.

BG2 combat has more spells and abilities combined with more characters to use them with. That is in ADDITION to the abilities that enemies use. The two games are close, but BGII difficulty on the hardest level required a lot more thought than the hardest difficulty in DA.

Nightmare difficulty in Dragon Age is too easy. I never encountered a fight where I was in danger of losing.

Perhaps I'm breaking the game by having a dedicated healer (Morrigan specced to healing), because it seems like the game is balanced around the possibility that you will NOT have a healer.

 

[Volourn]

"BG2 combat has more spells and abilities combined with more characters to use them with. That is in ADDITION to the abilities that enemies use. The two games are close, but BGII difficulty on the hardest level required a lot more thought than the hardest difficulty in DA."

nO.

 

[Mangoose]

"Combat is BETTER than clunky BGII in terms of feel and execution, a bit less so in terms of complexity and difficulty."

How the FUCK is BG2 combat more 'complex'?

That's bullshit analysis.

BG2 combat has more spells and abilities combined with more characters to use them with.

Kinda. There are definitely a lot more spells. But pure melee characters don't have much. Granted they can multiclass, but still.

 

[Elzair]

Okay, I do not understand how people could think that DA:O on Normal is a hands-free game. Whenever I just tried to let the AI go to town, I was quickly clobbered. I had to make sure they were all attacking the same guy and that they used health potions whenever their health got too low.

BTW what are some effective strategies for playing a human noble fighter with Morrigan, Leliana (I am thinking I should replace her with the dog) and that Paladin guy?

 

[Volourn]

"I do not understand how people could think that DA:O on Normal is a hands-free game.""

It's easy to understand. The people who claim that are *lying*.

 

[Multidirectional]

You're not very good at witty retorts, feeltherads.

Well he's much better than BLOBERT, that's for fucking sure.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

^ No

 

[Xor]

^ No

 

[CrimsonAngel]

I like potatoes

 

[Gay-Lussac]

"Combat is BETTER than clunky BGII in terms of feel and execution, a bit less so in terms of complexity and difficulty."

How the FUCK is BG2 combat more 'complex'?

That's bullshit analysis.

BG2 combat has more spells and abilities combined with more characters to use them with. That is in ADDITION to the abilities that enemies use. The two games are close, but BGII difficulty on the hardest level required a lot more thought than the hardest difficulty in DA.

Nightmare difficulty in Dragon Age is too easy. I never encountered a fight where I was in danger of losing.

Perhaps I'm breaking the game by having a dedicated healer (Morrigan specced to healing), because it seems like the game is balanced around the possibility that you will NOT have a healer.

I don't know if you're breaking it with the healer but you're certainly doing something. Nightmare is really punishing for me but then again I'm not muchkinizing my party at all just going with what feels right. I've been wiped out time and time again and I know some other people here had the same experience even on hard.

 

[vazquez595654]

I just started playing. I fought rats and after the battle I was covered in blood. Is there a way to get rid of the sprinkled in blood effect? It looks really silly.

The characters are terribly bland and the dialogue is a joke. But I guess most writing will appear that way as I am currently reading Raymond Feist books.

 

[kenney bounces]

Yes there is an option to turn off the persistent blood nonsense. The blood still splatters for a while though.

 

[kenney bounces]

There is a lot more character development for your party members later on. Any npc who gets more dialogue than usual.. you can count on them to die in the next scene. =p

 

[Freelance Henchman]

My impression is that the difficulty in DA really really depends on the particular group you are fighting at the time. I've fought bosses on Hardcore and managed through it with one or two knocked out or even nobody knocked out, and then a little later I run into a bunch of unarmored peasants that swarm the group and everybody dies. I don't like to micromanage too much, so maybe that's it, but I've had real trouble dealing with even moderate swarms of pure meleers rather than some mixed group (I'm playing with a 2 mage/1 fighter/1 rogue archer group). They dish out too much damage and have too many HP to kill quickly was my impression, and the AOE stuns I have (mind blast, paralyze, force field, cold blast) don't last long enough to keep them away.

It's stil doable, but it can feel a bit frustrating when you get owned by the local drunks after killing a demon or something.

 

[Zed]

My impression is that the difficulty in DA really really depends on the particular group you are fighting at the time. I've fought bosses on Hardcore and managed through it with one or two knocked out or even nobody knocked out, and then a little later I run into a bunch of unarmored peasants that swarm the group and everybody dies. I don't like to micromanage too much, so maybe that's it, but I've had real trouble dealing with even moderate swarms of pure meleers rather than some mixed group (I'm playing with a 2 mage/1 fighter/1 rogue archer group). They dish out too much damage and have too many HP to kill quickly was my impression, and the AOE stuns I have (mind blast, paralyze, force field, cold blast) don't last long enough to keep them away.

It's stil doable, but it can feel a bit frustrating when you get owned by the local drunks after killing a demon or something.

With two mages you can just chain cone of cold, the most OP spell in the game.

 

[Freelance Henchman]

Yeah I didn't take that on any of the characters. But as I said, it can still be done but it's more effort.

 

[kris]

- Nightmare difficulty.
- No A.I.
- Top down view.

... and yet I'm not having any fun. Should I consult the nearest apothecary for aid or should I just have the inquisition purge me of my inner daemons in the name of the emperor?

I suggest you try another game from another developer. Or find another hobby if needed.